Pin ticket



F. H. THOMPSON rm TICKET Filed Apfil 12; 1927 Winn-5'07:

P/lfllz'I/l; 1 A llilllllllllllifld e Patented Mar. 6, 1928.

UNITED STATES FRANK H. THOMPSON, OF FRAMINGHAM,

MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO-DENNISON MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF FRAMINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

rm TICKET.

Application filed April 12, 1927. Serial No. 183,203.

This invention relates to pin tickets adapted to be secured to paper sheets, fabrics or wearing apparel and to carry writtten or printed inscriptions identifying the price of the article to which the ticket is aflixed, or

any other desired indicia.

The principal objects of the invention are to provide a pin ticket which is simple and economical to manufacture and which may be readily secured to or removed from the garment or fabric, whether of thick or thin material, without exposing the point of the pin: to provide such a pin ticket in which the head of the pin is concealed beneath the 16 outer surface of the ticket, so that the pin will not be subject to casual disengagement from the ticket; and to provide a laminated ticket in which the layer or layers beneath the outer layer have registering openings to receive a portion of the cloth, and a pin adapted to be inserted at the edge of the lamina: between adjacent layers, so that its oint will be guided by the walls of the liayer and will not project through either surface of the ticket.

In the drawings which illustrate a recommended embodiment of the invention,

Fig. 1 is a face view of the improved pin ticket attached to a strip of fabric;

Fig. 2 is a rear view of the ticket;

Fig 3 is an enlarged section taken on the line 33 of Fig. 1; and I Fig. 4is an enlarged detail of a portion of Fig. 2 showing the disposition of the pin 85 head.

The ticket or tag may be made of any suitably stiff sheet material, such as heavy paper or cardboard, and preferably consists of two or more superposed and adhesively united layers of the material. In the suggested embodiment illustrated in Fig. 3, the ticket is triple ply and comprises an outer layer 5, an intermediate layer 6 and an inner layer 7, but it is obvious that more layers 46 may be provided, if desired, and that only two layers will suffice for many purposes of this invention.

The layers 6 and 7 have registering apertures constituting a cloth recess 8 which is preferably located near the center of the ticket. A common pin 9 is inserted at one edge of the ticket and extends through the cloth recess in a plane intermediate and substantially parallel to the opposite faces of the ticket. 111 order to obviate any tendeneyof the pin point to project through the outer layer 5, it is preferred that the pin be inserted between the layers 6 and 7, as shown in Fig. 3, so that the course-of the point will be guided by the adjacent walls of these sheets. The edges of the layers 6 and 7 are preferably notched to provide a recesslO for the pin head 11, whereby the latter will be covered by the outer layer5 to avoid all possibility that the pin will he accidentally witlulrawn.

In use the pin ticket is pressed fiatwise upon the article, such as the piece of Cloth 12, with the smooth-faced layer 5 outward, so that a portion of the cloth enters the recess 8, and the pin is pushed through this portion of the cloth and again into the ticket until the head 11 is lodged within recess 10. If necessary the cloth maybe pressed into its recess by a finger, and owing to the depth of the recess two or more thicknesses of material may be pinned together, for example a pair of stockings may be thus secured to prevent mismatching. The ticket is thus securely afiixed flatwise upon the article and the entire surface of the outer layer is available for printing or price marking, yet the tag may be quickly removed from the goods when desired by withdrawing the pin from the cloth. WVhen so re moved the pin may again be inserted until the head enters the recess 10 and frictionally engages the inner surface of the layer 5 (see Figs. 3 and 4:), thereby diminishing the possibility of loss of the pin. I

The pin ticket above described is inexpensive to manufacture and may be applied by hand or by automatic machinery to many kinds of materials including thin tissue paper and heavy clothing fabrics without damaging the article. It should be remembered, however, that details of construction may be varied for particular purposes without departing from the spirit of this invention as defined in the following claims.

I claim: i

1. A pin ticket comprising a tag having a cloth recess in its under side intermediate it edges, and a pin inserted atone edge of the tag, extending through the cloth recess and lying within the thickness of the tag, the tag having a recess in its said under side at one edge for the head of the pin, the upper mediate layer and an inner layer, the intermediate and inner layers having registering 2 apertures constituting a cloth recess, and a pin inserted at one edge of the tag and extending between the said intermediate and inner layers through the cloth recess. said two layers having registering notches at one. edge defining a recess beneath the margin of the outer layer for the head of the pin.

Signed by me at Framingham. Massachusetts this seventh day of April, 1927.

FRANK H. 'lI-l0ltllSON. 

